Chapter 66

Grace was stunned. She had not been expecting the place where she met Jay to be the place where her father had passed away.

“I’m so sorry,” she said.

“He only had himself to blame for dying.” He shrugged. “Sister, there is no need for you to apologize,” Jason said in a low voice.

She suspected the story was not so simple as Jay depicted it. ‘He only had himself to blame?’ that sounded ominous. Grace was surprised. She hadn’t been expecting him to describe his father’s death that way.

“Jay, I’m not sure what you man by blaming him, perhaps it was some accident-”

“Was it? I don’t think so. He fell in love with someone he shouldn’t have fallen in love with, then when she discovered that he was useless, he was cast aside. It didn’t matter even if he kneeled down and begged. No,” Jason’s eyes darkened into an abyss. “No, that’s not entirely true. The more he groveled and begged, the more she despised him.” He shook his head as if clearing the thoughts. “In the end, he died in despair and had frozen to death in the snow.”

Jason’s expression was as indifferent as if he was just talking about something as ordinary as the weather-not a man succumbing to hypothermia and dying in it. Even his voice was

as calm as usual. But… this was his father!

as if he had returned to the first time she

then too.

called out to him.

his dark pupils. “Tell me,” he goaded her. “Did he not bring it upon himself?”

felt her throat dry up as she tried to respond. After a long while, she finally murmured,

face, but there was

she knew

she could provide would be useless. There were some wounds in the world

stood up and hugged him as he stayed

was leaning against her chest, his nose was inhaling her breath, and her warmth was being transmitted onto his

sound of her heartbeat came into

feel like… staying in this position

“Mom, don’t go…”

kneeling down on the ground, hoping that the woman, who had already

woman still insisted on leaving and did not

the boy wanted

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